Sentence examples for sheer test from inspiring English sources

This is why "The Kindly Ones," for all its aspirations to profundity, is less a moral challenge than a sheer test of endurance.

Everyplay CEO Jussi Laakkonen doesn't seem too worried at the moment, describing Kamu World as a "sheer test … just interesting for the firm".

He studied no-run nylons already on the market and decided that they were too thick, so he had a sheerer version tested and sold it in drugstores under the brand names Chez La Femme and Silky Legs.

In many cases this is not feasible given the sheer quantity of test cases required.

But even a conservative estimate puts it well ahead of competitors at least in terms of sheer numbers of test vehicles on the road.

So great is the diversity and variation of ENMs that one report estimated conducting traditional in vivo toxicologic studies on the nanomaterials currently in commerce could take more than 50 years and cost upwards of $1 billion 36 not to mention the sheer number of test animals required for such an endeavor.

Many of the tests were designed to push the tires to their limit to determine when tread separation occurred, but the sheer number of tests shows that Firestone suspected a problem, he contended.

The view from media row looks directly down over the playing surface and its sheer vertical drop would test the virility of even the most hardened of men.

In the Canadian public healthcare system, Myriad's commercialization model and the sheer expense of the test were deemed incompatible with Ontario's genetic services model.

Not to be outdone for sheer horribleness, the United States tested out time bombs attached to dogs, but that didn't go so great; the dogs kept returning to their owners.

However, due to the sheer number of multiple tests involved, detecting a single gene with dN/ dS > 1 could occur due to chance effects.